The Licking County brewpub opened in 2012 in one unit of a three-unit building. It soon will take up the two end spaces of the building after an existing tenant left. The middle unit still is a law office.

“We knew we were going to have to do something, especially by this spring, so the timing worked out well,” Hennosy said of his space-constrained microbrewery.

The addition will double the space to almost 2,800 square feet combined, roughly 1,400 square feet for each space. The pub part of the business will stay in place while the brewery will move into the new space. For the bar, this means up to 25 new seats while the brewing operation will have room to grow. One of the first projects will be a line of limited edition bottled beers.

The move is pending federal approval to shift the brewery license to the other space.

As the brewery approaches its two-year anniversary in February, Hennosy said the business has grown to 35 accounts around Central Ohio with him still self-distributing his kegs around the region. Like other brewers, he added regular food truck food service to the brewpub to create a dining and drinking destination, which has helped business.

Sales were up 25 percent in 2013.

Buckeye Lake maintains a core assortment of beers — IPA, Irish Red, Blonde — supplemented with several rotating styles including Porter, Oatmeal Stout, Pale Ale or Black IPA. Hennosy said he’s also done several one-off and short-run specials, such as flavored Stouts or Porters, which is what he is considering selling as his bottled products.

To mark the two-year anniversary, he has made a Wee Heavy, also known as a Strong Scotch Ale.